My, you’ve got the logic on that down quite nicely. So one can’t say that ‘you don’t know about Microsoft since you never worked there’, because you actually worked there. Very impressive I might add. It isn’t easy to get internships there.

But one can say, with quite a bit of surprise I might add, that ‘you don’t know Microsoft inspite of having worked there’! That’s pretty logical too.

You see, we’re all pretty logical people here. It would be really nice if you’d keep your abusive bits out of this site. Along with ‘Vista’s f**ked design’. We all have our opinions here, we all state them politely.

Manish, I don’t think you’re really getting what Manan’s trying to say. There is a difference between a genuine software and pirated software. Making an identical copy would mean that the software is genuine. Using that copy when you don’t have a licence for it would mean that the software is being pirated.

Using software that is not genuine does not mean the same thing as using software that is pirated, de jure, although, de facto, it does. Software that is not genuine means the software is fundamentally altered from what what is being sold by the company officially. This usually occurs when the software is slipstreamed and then pirated. In such cases, there are greater chances of the final software being buggy. Just making a one to one copy of a piece of software doesn’t do this, and is not necessarily illegal- again depending on the jurisdiction. There’s nothing wrong with creating backup copies, as long as it adheres to fair use policies.

BTW. I did an internship in R&D section, not in Marketing and Sales division. I would have simply said NO to the latter if I was offered. I didnt want to be a part of that unethical marketing team.

I did my internship just because no one can say to me “You dont know about Microsoft since you never worked there”. Can anyone say me this now?

Making a copy of the install disk is NOT piracy! Understand the basics of computing. I heard you did internship at Microsoft and you don’t even know this.

It’s sad.